How can you consider an area that can only be sailed a small part of the year ... Granted the north east coast is a beautiful place but if it were so good for sailing why do so many disappear and head south in the winter?

Sailing is a wonderful experience, but the good lord created snow so that sailors can go skiing, in the correct season. Those sailors heading south in the Winter miss all the fun...

My small house is 90 miles from the boat and at an elevation of 6100 ft. 4 miles from a ski area.
Blowing 4 ft. of snow to get the truck out of the driveway (if the county has deigned to plow the street) just ain't the same kind of winter fun as it used to be.

Quite interesting you left off one of the oldest sailing cities in America Annapolis. Sailors have been using it since the early 1600......and when did San Fran and San Diego get to become part of the Americas.

Annapolis also holds the distinction of being one of the 5 capitols of the United States. It is also equidistant from Washington DC and Baltimore where there are great museums and restaurants.

The sailing season in Annaplis is 10 months long..ususally no ice and there are so many coves rivers to explore nearby.

[QUOTE=Coquina;1101022]How did Annapolis get left off this?
How many places look like this with the window kicked up under the wing?

The west coast from the Mexican border to Santa Barbara looks like that. where there are not good natural harbours developers have done there thing creating at least +100,000 protected slips in that area. Then further north is Monterey bay and san Francisco bay with another at least 100,000 plus berths all located in some of the best sailing water of the world not part time sailing areas like annapolisis. And then don't forget the island just off the coast of California all very popular for sailors

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